Word: imam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dinner party at an apartment in an affluent section of the Iranian capital. Once inside, the women slip out of their long, black chadors to reveal miniskirts and low-cut blouses. They are soon drinking bootlegged vodka and wiggling to pop music. Although the guests grudgingly respect the imam and are proud of their heritage, they are sadly aware of their predicament. "You cannot spend your whole life behind closed curtains, drinking bad vodka and listening to low-volume Madonna," said an engineer who had studied in North Carolina...
...number of students whose background puts a different slant on what is essentially a national holiday. "This is just like a long weekend for me," said Shugoo Imam '94 of Pakistan, professing an immunity to teary-eyed holiday sentiment...
...Imam, who attended an American school in her native country, said the prospect of a solitary holiday in the Yard doesn't depress her, as the distance of her home makes a visit unrealistic. "That kind of thing is to be expected when you come from so far away," she said...
...vibrant, outspoken women. His first, Khadija, ran a prosperous trading business and at one point was Muhammad's employer. A'isha, the Prophet's favorite, was at various times a judge, a political activist and a warrior. Among Muhammad's 11 other wives and concubines were a leatherworker, an imam and an advocate of the downtrodden, revered in her day as the "Mother of the Poor...
...leader of the Jamaat al-Muslimeen, or Group of Muslims. The Islamic splinter group, with few ties to the mainstream Muslims who make up 6% of the Trinidad and Tobago population of 1.3 million, espoused a potent mixture of religious fundamentalism and left-wing politics. The self-styled "Imam" traveled to Libya and was a vocal supporter of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, but the main interest of his armed band of militants, he said, was to rid Trinidad of drugs, corruption and poverty. He lived with most of his 300 adherents on a commune on the edge of Port-of-Spain...